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The worst-kept secret in Haiti: the UN's cruise ship hotelPort-Au-Prince (AFP) April 1, 2010 Deep within the labyrinthine complex of huts at the UN logistics base in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince is a small office where staff sign up to stay on a cruise ship called the Ola Esmeralda. For some this is smart, out-of-the-box thinking to accommodate aid workers in a hazardous post-quake environment, for others it is a blazing symbol of excess that shows just how out of touch the United Nations is from the task at hand. There is a second smaller luxury ship, the Sea Voyager, berthed in port ... read more |
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Fayetteville AR (SPX) Apr 06, 2010Experimenting on a university dormitory that was scheduled to be torn down, fire researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that the correct combination of automatic fire sprinkler systems, smoke alarms and closed doors provided enough time and safe conditions for residents to escape safely and for firefighters to perform their job without undue ... more  
Bangkok (AFP) April 2, 2010Leaders of Southeast Asian nations straddling the shrinking lower Mekong River are set to lean on China at landmark talks as controversy builds over the cause of the waterway's lowest levels in decades. Beijing's Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao will join the premiers of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin to discuss management of the vast river, on which mo ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2010An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist participated in a project to fine-tune computer models that can indicate when forest "carbon sinks" become net carbon generators instead. The results will help pinpoint the effectiveness of trees in offsetting carbon releases that contribute to higher atmospheric temperatures and global climate change. ARS plant physiologist Erik Hamerlynck ... more |
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Oil finds shift focus on Latin AmericaBogota, Colombia (UPI) April 2, 2010 A series of unrelated oil industry developments in Latin America are shifting focus from the Middle East to the South American continent as a major source of hydrocarbon energy in the coming decade. After Brazil's gigantic offshore and undersea discoveries, the drilling in the Falklands Islands and Venezuela's recent oil finds, Colombia reported a major oil breakthrough at an exploration well located in the country's Llanos Orientales region. Petrominerales Ltd., mostly owned by Canadian ... read more |
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